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Republican-American (enviro) Editorial.
Posted on 08/27/2007 1:48:09 PM PDT by Graybeard58
More bad news from holier-than-America Europe: Great Britain won't meet its Kyoto Protocol target of a 20 percent reduction in emissions of six greenhouse gases by 2010, and chances of achieving that goal by 2020 are almost as bleak.
The admission by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs merely confirms what Cambridge University and others have been saying for years. Britain, like most of the rest of Europe, Canada and scores of other global-warming citadels throughout the world, is hopelessly out of compliance. About the only nations on target to live up to their Kyoto obligations are China, India and the other exempt countries.
Even Kyoto's homeland isn't pulling its weight. Japan's emissions will rise by another 0.9 percent by March 2011, putting it on course to exceed its Kyoto limits by at least 8 percent, according to a government report. Japan has done well in reducing emissions by industry, but come 2012, emissions are likely to be up 15 percent from homes and 30 percent from offices vs. 1990, the Kyoto baseline year.
Consequently, Japan, like Britain, is looking at ways to reduce emissions from households. Can steep carbon taxes and costly emissions mandates on homeowners be far behind?
The fact is that except for the exempt nations, no Kyoto ratifier can do what it is supposed to under the treaty without inflicting severe damage on its economy. And even if it could, there's no guarantee the cost and sacrifice would have any effect on the climate. It's a stark reality that has yet to hit home in Connecticut and other Northeast states, which have signed the unconstitutional "Kyoto Lite" pact with the eastern Canadian provinces that like Kyoto has done little to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.
The more sensible approach is the market-driven the rest of America is following, a strategy that is balancing realistic environmental-protection goals with economic reality.
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Why do I doubt the sincerity of China’s reporting.....
BINGO, science has done this these past two hundred years, and will continue to do so. During the 19th Century European cities had atmospheres loaded with soot from coal burning fires, and the streets (and atmosphere) was loaded with tons of house excrement. Science took care of those problems, replaced it with others, and will probably do the same in our future.
“Global warming” hoax BUMP!
The United States is closer to Kyoto compliance than any other non-exempt country except Russia and the former Eastern Bloc, which have an artifically high bench-mark.
Everyone, even the militant enviros, that Kyoto was simply global socialism, transferring wealth from America to everyone else.
I got an idea-let’ just all die
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Does a house excrete in the woods?
If so, and if no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):
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Enviro-Nazis must be apopletic.
Yeah, but they really, really tried hard.
Better to try and fail, than not to try at all?
Imagine the gall of these countries not living up to their agreements.
Gore will probably charge them double from his carbon credits company just to make them stand up and pay attention to him
After all, he is the high priest of the new religion
Reading that hurriedly, I read "Al Church", I used to work with an Al Church and he resembles Gore. Al Church is a Republican though and he can't help how he looks.
I was shocked when a Canadian scientist said that the non-Kyoto-obligated US was doing better than all the other countries, Canada included.
In fact, Canada had an ad campaign after Kyoto to "Save a Tonne [of carbon]" per person/year, and they were going in the opposite direction.
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